Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope ...

Nature is full of surprises, and nowhere is that more evident than in the plant kingdom. Beyond the familiar roses, ferns, and trees, there are plants that seem like they ve stepped out of a fantasy ...

Scientists have found that ancient horsetail plants change water chemistry in surprising ways, offering new clues about Earth ...

Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels. On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The ...